GitHub Copilot is a plugin for Visual Studio and other IDEs that produces what Microsoft calls “suggestions’ based on what you type into the editor. Microsoft and OpenAI have conceded that Copilot & Codex are trained on open-source software in public repos on GitHub. There is no US case squarely resolving the fair-use ramifications of AI training.
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